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C. P. Smith (1)

Auteur de A Reason to Breathe

Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent C. P. Smith, voyez la page de désambigüisation.

12 oeuvres 155 utilisateurs 19 critiques

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Œuvres de C. P. Smith

A Reason to Breathe (2014) 55 exemplaires
A Reason to Kill (2014) 16 exemplaires
Property Of (2015) 15 exemplaires
Restoring Hope (2014) 14 exemplaires
Until Susan (2018) 12 exemplaires
A Reason to Live (2016) 11 exemplaires
Framed (2015) 10 exemplaires
Storm Damage (2020) 7 exemplaires
Three of a Kind (2016) 6 exemplaires
Until Joe (2019) 4 exemplaires
Double Trouble (2017) 4 exemplaires
Brave Savage 1 exemplaire

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female
Nationalité
USA

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I skimmed a good portion of this one. Another reviewer said all the flashbacks were too much and I agree. There are too many thoughts and not near enough dialogue. It just wasn't enjoyable at all.
 
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DebJack | 1 autre critique | Jul 28, 2023 |
Totally enjoyed this romantic suspense. More to come.
 
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Luziadovalongo | 2 autres critiques | Jul 14, 2022 |
2.5 stars. I feel kinda bad giving this book that low of a rating because there were a lot of parts of this I enjoyed. The main relationship was fine but the real draw for me were the background characters. From what I understand the main characters are characters in two other series that this author writes and this book definitely made me think about reading those books because I loved those characters a lot. These seem like very "alpha male" type books which are hit or miss for me. I would hate the type in real life but sometimes in books they can be framed in such away that I like it, or I like it purely for the escapist element of wanting to read about someone who takes care of everything for you. There were really only a few elements I didn't like, but I really didn't like them and it impacted my enjoyment of the rest of the book.

My biggest problem with this book is came from an almost throwaway line at the very beginning which was that Bernice's family is very rich because her ancestors made money through cotton farming and then later shipping. I am from Georgia, just like the people in this book. I know that there are people around me who have made money in similar ways. My problem isn't that this is where the families wealth comes from, my problem is the fact that this book never interrogates or further addresses the fact that these women are independently wealthy because their ancestors had slaves. I don't think that's something that should just be waved away or used as the reason for why they have money. If you're going to put that in a book, you need to address the obvious fact that cotton farming in the south was done by enslaved people who were being exploited and horribly mistreated. That detail of where the money came from was in the back of my mind through the whole book and really impacted my reading experience.
also totally not as serious a problem because it's just a small historical inaccuracy but it was weird to me that the family pivoted to sea shipping in the post-reconstruction era. I know they live on Tybee which is on the Atlantic but a lot of shipping in Georgia during that time was rail because it was directed towards shipping throughout the U.S., not overseas and the major river in Georgia, the Chattahoochee River is non-navigable. Sorry for the history lesson but I have to use my Georgia state history knowledge for something. Sorry if this is slightly inaccurate, I took the class in 8th grade and now I'm a junior in college

The other things that sort of bothered me was the way Joe's protectiveness was expressed. I'm never going to be the kind of person that would like if my partner insisted on paying for the whole check when we went out but I'm fine with that in books because I get how that can be attractive. What I didn't like was how later on Bernice was okay with Joe telling her to cover up in front of other guys because she loved him now. I think I will always prefer when a love interest accepts a persons boundaries and loves them anyway rather than changing their boundaries through the power of love. A male love interest telling a female character to cover up around other men is just something that I will never be able to find attractive and always stands out as a really negative plot detail.

I did really enjoy the characters of this book. It made me want other books by this author which puts me in kinda a tough position because the other books are based on the same family with the same family financial background that was a serious problem for me in this book. I may look into this authors back catalogue to see if there are books that might work for me but this one just had certain problems that I couldn't ignore.
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AKBouterse | 2 autres critiques | Oct 14, 2021 |
Second book in the series, I recommend reading the series in order as the characters in the three books are building relationships which start in book 1.

Book 2 starts with a prologue which looks at events at the end of book 1 from Bo and Sienna's perspective then chapter 1 starts with the fall out of it.

Bo and Sienna.

I am not a fan of push/pull or of one character chasing after an attraction to the other that the other is deflecting but Bo, with good reasons to be fair, only pushes Sienna away for a short time by 20% he's decided to go for it.

Small ex drama which was Sienna's past hang up about relationships.

There are plenty of scenes with the couple from the first book plus Poppy who will be in book 3.
There some funny scenes.
No cheating.
No intimate scenes with anyone other than the Hero and heroine.
HEA for the main couple but ....
Ending leads straight into Poppy's story in the next book.
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izzied | Oct 29, 2020 |

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Œuvres
12
Membres
155
Popularité
#135,097
Évaluation
½ 3.3
Critiques
19
ISBN
20
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